Video dimensions changed after importing into VirtualDub

[vidnoob]

Video is a TV capture in MPEG2 and using VirtualDub-MPEG2/MOD to convert to xvid. Basically the video went from a landscape to a portrait. Any idea why this happens and how do i rectify the problem?


Before in Windows Media Player:



After importing into VirtualDub:

[guns1inger]

It looks like the original was actually encoded as half-D1, something that wmp wasn't smart enough to pick up on. Virtualdub has done the right thing. To see how it should look in the preview, right_click and select 4:3 from the menu. When you resize it for conversion (assuming you were going to), the problem will go away.

[vidnoob]

i tried the selecting 4:3 on right click b4. Apparently it looks fine in VirtualDub but still exports the video "squashed" portrait style. I went into the codec configuration to set/change the video size/ratio but still got the same result. whats gives?

[guns1inger]

Drop a resize filter in to stretch out the horizontal size to 720 (if you are converting at full-D1).

What size do you wan't it to be ?

[vidnoob]

yeah~ worked after the resize filter as u instructed! but i had to use full processing mode to access the filters option. Is this normal?

ohh on another matter, why is my "append segment" function grayed out?

Thanks!

[guns1inger]

Anything that changes the video and requires a re-encode must be done in full-processing mode. All filters fall into that category.

Don't know about the append segment issue - never used the function.